The Gen Y Guide to Social Media
Posted: April 16th, 2009 | Author: Ron Bronson | Filed under: Life, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Tags: facebook, generation y, public relations, Twitter | 5 Comments »You are currently browsing comments. If you would like to return to the full story, you can read the full entry here: “The Gen Y Guide to Social Media”.
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Great post, Ron. It’s gotten to the point for many, I think, where if you don’t post it as a status, it didn’t happen (sounds like that old dashboard confessional song “it seems like nothing’s happened / until I’ve shared them with you.” I know I’ve been on the edge of my seat, itching to post something that just happened but knowing that it’s not something I can offer up to Google … and it’s occurred to me that maybe it’s time to disconnect for a bit
I did two separate applicant interview projects last year, out east and then here in Ontario, and we did find that millennials were consistently misunderstanding that some links weren’t for them – which I attributed to their “me me me” syndrome – no harm done though, was just interesting to notice that they consumed web solely from their perspective (as opposed to thinking “oh that link is for alumni” – it didn’t even occur to them that alumni would also visit the site!)
Again, great post!
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I’m with you on the edge of the seat posting thing. I actually had a consultant read something I wrote once on a dead blog about my wider thoughts on a presentation that I didn’t like. It wasn’t really about the presentation, as much as it was about the institutional direction and some things I didn’t like. Long story short, the consultant called someone who planned the event (not my boss at the time) and wondered what the deal was…
The lesson learned was vivid for me, in the sense that I realized 1) people actually read what I was writing and that I had reach and 2) that maybe there were more constructive ways to get my words out — even in situations where I didn’t have any problem with anyone disagreeing with me.
And I’ve seen the whole “what do you mean the web site isn’t only for us” phenomenon play out too and that’s always interesting.
Thanks for commenting, as always.
From @mstoner:
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007041
Specifically, information on young people’s social network pages can come back to haunt them.
Over 60% of those surveyed acknowledged that the things friends wrote in their profiles could harm their careers. In addition, 48% said they could be embarrassed by what they themselves wrote, and 38% said they regretted some of the items that had appeared on their pages already.
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